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Word: valium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roger Moore, star of TV's The Saint -meets a telepathic beauty named Solitaire (Jane Seymour), a black double agent (Gloria Hendry) and the usual assortment of outrageous villains, their seemingly indestructible henchmen and an obstacle course of hazards that would have sent even Superman running for his Valium. "There will be more action packed into these two hours than any other Bond film," brags Director Guy Hamilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The New Face of 007 | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...enough. It is that Geraldine is pure ghetto caricature. Half the fun of her characterization comes from the clichés of the black experience that she embodies, the other half from put-ons of conventional white attitudes toward that experience. Five years ago, any network executive worth his Valium would have sworn that these were not the ingredients of mass entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When You're Hot, You're Hot | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

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